LBDA to Build up an international Collaborative Innovation Network

Eric Yu, secretary-general of Language Big Data Alliance (LBDA) and CEO of Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd. (GTCOM), spoke at LBDA’s 2017 annual conference in Guangzhou on April 8, looking back at LBDA’s progress previously year and then into its future.

An international organization with well-structured partnership

LBDA made much headway in most field it reached inside the founding year of 2016.

According to Eric Yu, LBDA continues to be moving fast towards the objective of as an international organization since its inception, striving to produce itself higher quality plus more influential on the planet. Its membership has covered some globally renowned universities such as University of Vienna, University of Geneva, and Gazi University.

Now LBDA has 138 members and also the number is predicted to keep growing.

LBDA Europe is scheduled to be established later this year to promote resource-sharing, exchanges, and organization of international events among its member organizations worldwide.

An international platform for collaboration and resource-sharingLBDA has run greater than 30 projects within the last year in such fields as speech recognition, machine translation, and analysis of huge data, said Eric Yu. During these projects, universities and businesses worked together on translation assignments involving a total of 50 million characters.

A particular project marked a milestone within the Chinese reputation translation: 750 translators from 58 universities – LBDA members – completed the translation of subtitles for 50,000-minute videos within a week. More projects are saved to the way.

LBDA also seeks to facilitate the exchanges between its members as well as their counterparts abroad.

At FIT Congress 2017 being locked in Brisbane, Australia in August this season, LBDA – a high partner of the congress – will invite representatives from the world’s top research institutes to talk about the way forward for the translation industry.

In conclusion, Eric Yu unveiled the program for LBDA’s future development.

The entire year of 2017 will be centered on the “sharing and exchange of resources worldwide”. LBDA will build an online platform for the members to share and exchange resources with each other.

Moreover, the inaugural meeting of LBDA Europe is going to be locked in Switzerland in September this coming year.

Europe’s leading universities and research institutes in such areas as journalism, psychology, neurology, medicine, language, and business would be the founding individuals LBDA Europe, and joint labs on machine translation, speech recognition, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) will be established among them. A number of key collaborative research findings can also be announced in the meeting.

LBDA Europe will surely help foster collaborative innovation among Chinese joint labs as well as the leading universities and research institutes of other countries.